We didn't start the process because of that. But we were aware of the situation there when we did review that policy.

All of our policies are pretty broad-based because it allows communities to use the policies to meet their community needs.

There was great concern in all of the communities about limiting the elective classes by requiring more core.

He resigned for personal and family reasons. We accepted his resignation, and we've asked Coach Laura Romo to take over and complete the season.

Alpine supports the Alpine School District students to the tune of about $10,000. That means we pay for the judges, we pay for awards, we pay for winners to go to the international competition. So some of the charter schools wanted to participate. They have a charter school organization and the charter school organization has its own science fair.

Bottom line: We've given training, we have a procedure in place and that procedure was not followed.